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by Joy Loving, Station Products and InnovationThe iMA conference and SXSW are fast approaching! Will you be in attendance this year? The iMA conference will be held March 7-8, 2012, while SXSW events will take place March 9-18, 2012; both events will b
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The new Radio homepage, compared to the previous version (behind)
This week we have released several new elements of the Radio and Music product, which I will explain in this post.
Since my last post in December we have been busy releasing features an
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“Four Questions With …” is an occasional series of interviews with different social media and community editors in the news industry.
So, what is it like to be a social media or community editor? What are the job responsibilities and how does on
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Above is one of my favorite videos about online journalism — a 1981 television report from KRON-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. It shows how, through a special service, people were able to dial into servers and download the day’s newspaper.
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The hyperlocal Chicago News Cooperative site, which supplies Chicago-area content to the New York Times, announced today it will suspend publication. The non-profit site was founded in 2009. It will stop production to reassess the situation on Feb. 26.
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The Editorial Integrity for Public Media Project has released its Code of Editorial Integrity for Local Public Media Organizations, a set of guidelines intended to serve as an ethical compass for TV and radio stations throughout the system. The Code st
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Frontline swept the documentary and news categories of the Writers Guild Awards Sunday (Feb. 19) in Los Angeles, winning all four honors. "Top Secret America," written by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser, claimed the documentary — current events award; "W
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Until now, Alix Pryde blogged about BBC services on satellite here on the BBC Internet blog. Starting with her blog post today about some BBC channels moving to a newer satellite, her posts move onto the About the BBC blog:
The BBC curre
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Now that the second season of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Classic has wrapped up, creator Julian Fellowes took time for a question-and-answer session with the New York Times in which he reveals a few of his fave American TV shows (Mad Man, Sex and the
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Ira Glass of This American Life is a recipient of a prestigious George Polk Award, announced today (Feb. 20) by Long Island University. Glass won for his reporting on "Very Tough Love," an hour-long piece that showed "alarmingly severe" punishments by
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Tim Emmons, who for 15 years has managed Northern Public Radio in DeKalb, Ill., and was a driving force behind the Morning Edition Grad School, died Saturday (Feb. 18) after a long battle with cancer, the station reports. He was 53.
Emmons arrived i
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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.
1. New code allows websites to opt-out of Pinterest (LL Social)
2. Google adds a 'share' box to its homepage (Marketing Land)
3. Forbes among 30 clients using comput
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As with many jobs that are either technical in nature, or have a somewhat narrow scope, being the newsroom’s primary social media educator can have a pigeon-holing effect on ones career.
Depending on how advanced the newsroom is when it comes to
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We sadly note the passing of friend and noted public radio manager, programmer, mentor and trainer Tim Emmons who died Sunday after an extended battle with cancer.Among his many career achievements, Tim was a co-founder of the MEGS training workshops a
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From left: Josh Constein (TechCrunch), Steve Jang (Schematic Labs), Seth Goldstein (Turntable.fm), Alexander Ljung (SoundCloud)
Last week was Social Media Week, with hosted discussions across the globe about the social networking phenomenon. Jennifer W
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The American Experience film Freedom Riders won for best edited documentary at the Eddie Awards presented by American Cinema Editors Saturday night (Feb. 18) in Los Angeles. Here's a complete list of nominees, which also included Downton Abbey from Mas
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Karl Scroggin, classical music host at WUIS in Springfield, Ill., is retiring after a 30-year career that included, according to the State Journal-Register, assisting mezzo-soprano opera singer Marilyn Horne claim $600 in slot-machine winnings. Yes, yo
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The Chicago News Cooperative will cease publishing content on Feb. 26, the Chicago Reader reports, due in part to a delay in a crucial MacArthur Foundation grant. The Internal Revenue Service has yet to decide if CNC and similar web news operations are
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There’s good news for pubcasters in the legislation giving the FCC spectrum auction authority that passed this week in Congress — but many questions remain, and serious technical challenges lie ahead as spectrum is reallocated and repacked to provi
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The Hollywood Reporter sat down with PBS President Paula Kerger for a wide-ranging interview posted Feb. 17. Highlights:
On the potential for reality shows on PBS: "Colonial House and [2002's] Frontier House are different types of reality. They're e
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White Van Man
White Van Man
Didn't catch the fantastic first series of White Van Man? Shame on you. But not to worry - you can catch the very best bits on the Red Button. Plus you'll have all the info you need to really enjoy Series Two!
Will Mell
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By Joy Loving, Station Products & Innovation Welcome to the Weekly PBS Interactive Station Products & Innovation Debrief, which is designed to give PBS stations a rundown of product updates and opportunities announced this week on our blog
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by Edward Schumacher-Matos
The all-male witness panel at Thursday's Hou
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Congress today (Feb. 17) approved legislation providing the FCC with the ability to reclaim and auction broadcast spectrum to help pay for a payroll tax break and unemployment benefits, according to Broadcasting & Cable. The House passed the bill 2
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A Republican presidential debate on March 19 in Portland, to be produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and carried live on pubcasting stations, is still on, despite GOP hopefuls Mitt Romney and Ron Paul pulling out of a debate March 1 in Atlanta, the O
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Public radio's audience is changing and so are the ways stations engage them.In a guest post on the National Center for Media Engagement's blog, Alex Schaffert-Callaghan, KPCC's director of digital media, explains how her station is dealing with the de
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Lately, the social network that's been all the rage has been Pinterest, which is a visual look at the things you like. That means recipes, infographics, photos, design and more. MediaShift's Courtney Lowery Cowgill wrote that Pinterest was the first th
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Nashville Public Television was a finalist for a local Bowtie Award for Best Workplace Environment, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville announced this week. The honor recognizes "a business that integrates arts and creativity into the bu
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It seems, these days, that we hear more about tweets than about foreign correspondence. But yesterday, American journalism, and citizens who value being informed with incisive, in-depth and courageous reporting, suffered a tragic loss with the death, o
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Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever” first ran in The New Yorker on January 23, 1995. It had a second life as a book, and a third as a movie, in which adapting the latter from the former drives a screenwriter to madness, ruin and redemption.
And no wond
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